The upcoming Batman TV series Pennyworth has cast Endeavour actor Jack Bannon as its young Alfred.

Bannon has landed the lead role in the prequel series, which will follow Bruce Wayne's legendary butler Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS solider in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with billionaire Thomas Wayne.

Bannon's Alfred is described as a handsome, cheerful and charming young man from 1960s London and the series will see Alfred struggle to reconcile the kind-hearted boy he used to be with the cold, calculated killer he was forced to become.

Thomas Wayne is described as a confident and extremely disciplined man, who makes an unlikely business partner in Alfred when they meet in London.

Based on the DC characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the 10-episode series comes to us from the same writing team as Gotham, although the creatives have already said that there won't be any linkbetween the two series.

Production on Pennyworth gets underway on October 22 at Warner Bros Studios in the UK, and a premiere date has yet to be confirmed.